Application Compatibility Manager v2.0.0.1 Release Notes
October 3rd, 2006
New Features and Enhanced Functionality
New Features
Policy Management
ACM now provides a mechanism for modifying the risk assessment of your portfolio using policies which can be used to reflect your individual environment; for example, you can represent the effect of Active Directory Policies. You will also be able to define your own specific ACM policies. This adds a new dimension of decision support and allows you to further customise your portfolio assessment by enabling customisation in accordance with your corporate environment, therefore, change the RAG status of rules, and exclude rules or rule types to suite your needs.
Client Compatibility Management
ACM allows you to flag which of your applications are compatible, incompatible, or have known issues, allowing you to interactively alter the state of your portfolio as you acquire more compatibility information from testing and remediation. This will also help you to maintain a top level view of your portfolio's compatibility assessment at any point during the migration stages. Compatibility settings that you apply to your applications are directly reflected in the reports. For instance, if an application was originally found to have an Amber status, but testing has shown that any potential problems are acceptable, you can mark the application as compatible on a given platform which will change the status of the application in the desired report to Green.
Rule Set Management
ACM is consistently kept up to date with the latest changes on XP, XP SP2 and Vista, however the latest rule set may not always suit your needs. Not a problem with ACM rule set management as you can now specify when you would like to upgrade and which version of the rule set you would like to upgrade to as and when it suits you.
Compatibility Tab
The compatibility view is a new view that allows you to set the compatibility status across operating systems. You can also add individual comments which are stored for the application, allowing you to build up an enterprise compatibility history for each application. This is especially useful when you outsource remediation and testing and require a central place to store the compatibility information.
Summary Review Tab
It may be necessary to get a view across different operating systems when your migrations span many different versions of the Windows family of operating systems. For example, if you were migrating from Windows 2000 to Windows Vista you would probably be interested in the XP and XP SP2 rule sets as well to ensure that your applications are fully compatible with Vista. In order to quickly facilitate this new view, the Summary View, has been included which will show you the overall status for each operating system and then a final RAG status.
Client Messaging
Administrators will now have the ability to create messages that all their users will be able to view. You could create a deadlines message, or a reminder - all messages are displayed on the front page when your users login to ACM.
